10 must do courses to be aware of to survive in the future!

Ever thought how the future employment would be? Do you know how the technology gonna regulate the world in the next couple of years?

Right from the childhood, we have been asking the question like “what would become when you grow up”? gone were those days where we used to answer “a doctor, engineer, or a teacher!”

Modern days kids have the miscellaneous options of choosing the options of a career because of the rapid development in technology.

Even the Technology seems to be surprised each day. With the growth of automated engines, tools, bots, it would dominate the essence of the jobs in the near future!

Wondering how?

Let’s take an instance of connecting to customer services, everyone is aware of the long process of how customers wait for prolonged minutes to connect to the customer care. And now it has changed completely. Everyone wants instant options, so he/ she simply opts for bots.

It happens to be the same as any sector, be it in banking, finance, accounting. The future would need less human resources when compared to the current trend.

So the point of this article is to discuss what are the advancements in technology one should be aware of to survive in the near future.

Here is the list of tools and areas which rules the future trends and employment sectors

Digital Marketing

Have you ever wondered how the same Ad popups wherever you go online? Ever thought how only those particular websites pop up in the Google search results?

That’s because of the Digital Marketing! It now has become the hero of the business operations, it is now in boom and companies are trying their fortune online in every social channel and the search engines.

As per the article published in Forbes , it is stated that how it is changing the way a business does and an article published in Economic Times, Digital Marketing is considered as one of the topmost skills in demand of 2017.

Why is it the job of the future?

As every business wants to try their fortune online and reap profits with the social media marketing, companies would be in a dire need of the people who are passionate, creative and can apply the complete common sense on the channels which people use every day.

Digital Marketing has many perks as it is not a rocket science it is just easy. You should operate with the social media channels and search engines you sue every day by applying common sense.

You know what’s the best part of it? You don’t need coding knowledge and there is no recession as startups and online businesses would evolve by 2020. You can become a “Mini Entrepreneur” if you are aware of the tactics involved in Digital Marketing.

In the future if you want to establish a business, be it small or big, be it a beauty Salon or an IT enterprise, or even a small restaurant, Digital Marketing would be needed to grow the business in the large scale and reaching more customers.

There are best institutes like Digital Nest, Digital Vidya and DMS to learn Digital Marketing with the practical approach.

Big Data Analytics

You know how much bytes of data is generated every day in your mobile or drive? Be it in the form of photos, emails, status or reports!

According to the VCloudNews, It is stated that 0.77 GB of data is generated by every human.

If only one human is able to generate that much amount of data, how much a business firm would be generating! How well can they know that which data is useful and what goes where?

Well! That’s all Big Data does! It helps the organization in segregating the data based on its variety, volume and velocity! You can get the clear picture if what is Big Data here.

The real-time applications of Big Data are those emails you get from a restaurant you went long back and those Happy Hours you receive from a cafe or an e-commerce store, or the coupon you get as per your choice.

Why is it the job of the future?

India is already facing a great demand and supply gap for Data Analysts professionals. As companies couldn’t control the flow of data on the internet, they would need the analysts who can find the exact data where they can use for business growth. Companies would need the people with great Warehousing, Data Mining and Database skills.

There are best institutes like Digital Nest, Coursera and edx to learn Big Data Analytics and work on real-time applications.

Data Science

Ever wondered how Youtube, Saavn, Amazon, or Flipkart recommend the products exactly you search for? Isn’t it making your work pretty effortless? If yes, thanks to Data Science!

Though Big Data and Data Science seem to be the same, there are actually different and you can read how they differ here.

Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning are the terms which are heard from most of the recent times and they are making the work of a person or an organization much easier.

To reduce the stress of human resources, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence were introduced where the machines are programmed to automatically learn and improve from experience without being explicitly programmed.

Some of the examples where AI is used for are Surveillance, Banking, predictive purchasing, Virtual Assistants and Cyber Security.

Why is it the job of the future?

The world has become predictive, so do the business!

Whatever the Data Analysts extracted through all the sources, Data Scientists use the same data clean it, extract it, find the suitable data for each sector and predict the customer’s choice based on their online behaviour.

This prediction could be used in weather broadcasting, Internet search, Online shopping, Airline route planning, Image & Speech Recognition, Search and Youtube Recommendations, Fraud detection.

Companies would need the people with great knowledge of coding knowledge on Python and R, Database knowledge. The average salary of Data Scientists is around $118,709 per year.

Some of the institutes like Digital Nest, JigSaw Academy, Analytics Path provide the best Data Science course with practical approach!

RPA

Ever wondered how your browser or some of the e-commerce store you regularly visit Autofill all your details? Isn’t that process hassle-free?

Robotic Process Automation helps in doing it all! the name itself indicates what it all does. To reduce the stress process of employees, companies configure software robots and teach the workflow with multiple steps and applications.

These robots do the simple tasks such as taking received forms, sending a receipt message, checking the form for completeness, filing the form in a folder and updating a spreadsheet with the name of the form, the date filed, and so on. RPA software is designed to reduce the burden of repetitive, simple tasks on employees.

Why is it the job of the future?

RAP might be still in the early stage and is limited only to banking, accounting, insurance sectors and all.

Every business sector looks for the cost-effective, faster solutions and lesser error-prone process.

As every vendor is now in the mature stage of their upgrading their tools, these sectors are working on trial. Many of big companies have partnered with above-mentioned vendors and working on implementing RPA in few sectors now.

A recent article from Forbes explained how RPA is helping in achieving the necessary ROI. The growing interest of RPA by various organizations prove that it is the next automation storm coming in advance.

This would be a good platform for someone who already has good understanding and experience in BPM/BPI. With the certification in RPA, they would be able to grab the good opportunity and salary once the trial in various sectors will be successful as there is a gap of supply and demand in this particular sector.

There are institutes like Spiritsofts, The next Space which provides the impeccable training with Real-Time experience.

Block Chain

Previously dealing with internet was way difficult and now it has changed in a completely different and easy. Modern internet is completely unique and deals with assets. These assets are stored in encoded form on a network-to-network chain called the blockchain or ledger, where each participant sees whom you do business with.

This protects the business, prevents theft, but, also, simplifies and quickens the process, reduces errors, and saves users from hiring a third party because Users need to know whom they are dealing with.

Why is it the job of the future?

It helps in creating the more trusted environment. In the future user actions and reactions will be recorded in the system. Blockchain will help reduce the corruption as position holders will now be liable for their decisions and approvals.

If an office approves a subgrade material, it will be recorded in the system. If a person updates incorrect information, it will be recorded. Public and decentralised blockchains cannot be easily altered. This automated and permanent database would make people think about conning the system.

DevOps

If you are into IT, you might have already known what DevOps is! In an IT environment, DevOps engineer is responsible for entire project input and output.

There are some excellent Apps where people are using from the App store are developed, tested and deployed by a DevOps Team.

DevOps Team does all the tasks right from building the code, Testing, deploying, System administration, monitoring, reporting and everything.

It might seem to be too technical, but it is fun when you actually work on it. Isn’t awesome if people are using the app which you have built with all the efforts?

Why it the job of the future?

The demand for the Apps never fade and even the business embrace the DevOps for the smooth functioning of the project. For those who have the passion for coding and love to play with the programming languages, DevOps is the finest choice of job. As per the survey, Payscale mentioned that an average salary of a DevOps engineer would be Rs 666,232 per year.

SAP

The SP is responsible for all the smooth functioning of any organization process. Right from Sales, HR, accounting, financing and production, SAP can access the whole process and provide the flexibility to work as a team.

For the smooth functioning of organization workflow SAP tool is obviously needed. Companies would need people who can play with SAP tools based on each sector.

Why is it the job of the future?

SAP has been the leader of ERP. The average salary of an SAP consultant is Rs 593,252 per year. Startups are disrupting SAP’s business. Since almost all of the SAP products have a better and free version of business software & solutions SAP might become an open source because of the demand.

There are academies like siliconindia, SAP India Certification which provide the SAP training based on each sector they would like to prefer.

PMP

Did you ever got stuck in the middle of the coding and didn’t know how to proceed further? Or how to deploy or how to use the budget allocated?

That is where you reach your project management professionals for seeking the advice.

Here project managers are accountable for the success or failure as they are responsible for Planning, Executing, Managing the team, Defining and closing of projects.

If you are not so passionate about coding and want to get into something different stream, you can opt this out.

Why is it the job of future?

The rapid growth of companies and their projects definitely need a person who can handle the project and manage the team.

It seems to be pretty easy but it’s actually the quite difficult task of managing the team and allocating budget. That’s the reason why it places a major role in the firm’s growth.

PMP has the rapid growth in this field and an average salary would lie around $113,000 per year.

Institutes like SimpliLearn, Knowledgehut, PMI.org render the best training in Project Management.

Cloud Computing

Imagine you have been to a trip recently with a bunch of friends and you clicked the pictures and want to share with every single individual. Here cloud takes it part and allows you to share the pictures in a secure way.

Google Drive and Google Wave, for instance, enables users to create files then invite other users to edit, collaborate with the files or comment. Collaboration with cloud computing is the same as instant messaging. However, it provides complete, specific tasks that take just hours instead of months to accomplish.

Why it the job of the future?

Every business works in a different way and uses the tools in a different way based on their demand and structure. Every business needs the cloud for some or the other operation. Cloud provides access to everything right from the storage, sharing and even for the backup issues.

Though organizations deploy cloud technology, the enterprise would need IT, professionals, to work on the cloud. The demand for IT professionals continues to rise at an exponential rate as more and more enterprises adopt Cloud Computing. There are miscellaneous options for working as Cloud architects, Cloud engineers, Cloud security experts, Cloud developers, Cloud support analysts.

    10) IoT

Have you ever felt glad for the person who made the invention of connecting your smartphone to your car?

That is what IoT is all about! Connecting wearables, devices, smart home or office is built only by IoT. It all about connecting Machine to Machine and embedding them to work as a system or a form.

Why is it the job of the future?

IoT is not limited to particular domain or segment. The future of the Internet will be so bright that the millions of machines existing today would connect and communicate which in turn reduces the process of human interventions. Companies would need people who can manage those machine network so that the workflow wouldn’t be disturbed.

Technology is apparently proving that the above things invade the world in the next coming years. So the future would be a Do or Die situation to the graduates, they should either learn the automated version of tools to survive or be unemployed.